Re: coils 5hp seaking

[aquasonic]

quote FrankR:

underclerik, remove the breaker points and dis-assemble them, degrease them, and individually polish each contact shiny bright. Reassemble and set gap to 0.020″ at widest opening. I’m betting you will have fire.

However, what’s with that sheet metal screw? If it is shorted to ground, that is a problem.

It would be surprising if that sheet metal screw, holding the points together, is not a problem. In order to force that screw in there, the tiny insulator bushings, shown as part no. 42 in Buccaneer’s diagram, must be destroyed or missing. They are very small, delicate, and very easily lost. Time to look for another points assembly. Used points assemblies are fairly easy to come by, and new old stock ones are still around.

As others have mentioned, those coils, most of the time, are still good. Have you tested them with a multimeter of ohmmeter? Like the points, used coils are also fairly common. NOS coils are very expensive if you can even find them.

Here is a very helpfull website: http://pochefamily.org/outboard/Coils.htm

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